ANC not seeking to nationalise land

The party briefed the media at Luthuli House on Wednesday on decisions taken at its two-day National Executive Committee (NEC) lekgotla.

ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Tuesday that the party had resolved to amend the Constitution to allow government to expropriate land without compensation.

The ANC's Ronald Lamola told the briefing that the NEC resolved that the people need to benefit when a decision is taken to expropriate. 

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"This means that we are going to take and give it to the people who will use it, we are going to give them title deeds. If we are giving you a farm it means we are going to give you title deeds to the farm.” 

Lamola said nationalisation will merely end up dispossessing black people who already own land.

"We are going to disposes a black farmer somewhere in KZN, we are also going to disposes black people who have houses in the urban areas," he explained. 

Lamola says they are going to use the Expropriation Act to ensure that land ownership reflects the country's demographics.